Bing Ads Bot

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Compliant

What is Bing Ads Bot?

About

AdIdxBot is the crawler used by Bing Ads. AdIdxBot crawls ads and follows the websites from those ads for quality control. Just like Bingbot, AdIdxBot has both “desktop” and “mobile” variants.

Operator

Microsoft

Documentationwww.bing.com

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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your logs?

If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Ads Bot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your logs?

If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Ads Bot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your logs?

If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Ads Bot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block Bing Ads Bot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block Bing Ads Bot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

AdidxbotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block Bing Ads Bot

User-agent: Adidxbot
Disallow: /

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